Former Human Rights Watch executive director (1993-2022). Now senior fellow, Yale University (Law and Jackson). My book: "Righting Wrongs" (Knopf/Allen Lane).
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This isn't the first time the US government stood on the wrong side of an essential human rights challenge. In my new book, "Righting Wrongs," I explain how the human rights movement repeatedly circumvented and overcame US obstruction. We can do it again. penguinrandomhouse.com/books…
The naive Trump thinks that making business deals with Putin will show him the benefits of making peace with Ukraine. In fact, it is only reinforcing Putin's intransigence. Why make peace when he can count on Trump to force Ukraine to capitulate? trib.al/KGXgmPb
70 percent of young American voters identified as Democrats or leaned that way. That’s 15 points higher than before the 2024 election, and comparable to the 2008 election, when a youth wave helped Barack Obama to victory. trib.al/JnTRNnL
After the midterms, the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC says it will stop candidate endorsements and contributions. AIPAC's defense of Israel despite its genocide, apartheid, and endless occupation has become too toxic. Candidates don't want its backing. trib.al/SNFUFfD
Forever-war Netanyahu may try to persuade Trump to attack Iran yet again so even if Netanyahu loses Israel's election later this month, which seems likely, he can press his opponents to let him stay on as a "wartime" prime minister. trib.al/bA8tNrF
The United Arab Emirates has nominated Lana Zaki Nusseibeh, Minister of State, as a candidate for UN Secretary-General. She is likely to be asked why her government has been sending arms and mercenaries to the genocidal Rapid Support Forces in Sudan. trib.al/JNmlC6E
The United Nations is launching a new initiative on the military uses of artificial intelligence, aimed at addressing some dire concerns about the threat the rapidly developing technology could pose to humanity. trib.al/RZAggov
An investigation suggests that the "American company Axon still supplies Israel with Taser weapons despite evidence they have been used to torture prisoners." trib.al/nIIyaow
An Indian court has ordered the release of two leaders of India’s Cockroach movement who were jailed last week amid a mounting state crackdown on youth-led protests. trib.al/4H3NpCP
Macron seems to say that Trump’s comments are “stupid” for blaming France’s riots on “migrants, jihadists and communists.” trib.al/C4um6wo
UN experts called for an independent investigation into Indian authorities' conduct in a recent crackdown on protests, where they said demonstrators had sustained injuries and some were subjected to ill-treatment. trib.al/L4UvyJm
Does Trump think voters are so dumb that they'll ignore his counterproductive war of choice against Iran if he just waits to resume it until after the midterms? They know Trump and want to end Republican acquiescence in his disastrous reign. trib.al/V4GIAAO
A student protest movement has gripped Serbia for two years. In this weekend's election, it will try to take power. trib.al/4NDC3JI
"Why are French police so violent? Their job is to protect the state, not the people. Officers are instruments of state whose job is to repress, rather than manage, public dissent." trib.al/S65OegJ
The humanitarian crisis in the besieged Yemeni city of Taiz is becoming unmanageable as the city runs out of water, fuel and fresh food. Iran-allied Houthi forces have largely encircled the city of 900,000+ people, cutting it off from most supply routes. trib.al/BFqy8Ey
Relatives of gravely ill detainees at two Florida immigration jails say Trump authorities are about to deport their loved ones to unknown countries in Africa despite worsening medical conditions. trib.al/baHyI4X
The Israeli military detained ~80 US, Israeli & British volunteers trying to protect Palestinians from Israeli settler violence as they harvest olives near Bethlehem, including a NY congressional nominee, several rabbis and Israel’s former deputy AG. trib.al/n2PMPyV
The Washington Post photojournalist attacked by Israeli settlers in the West Bank was saved by local Palestinians. She sustained four fractured vertebrae, two broken ribs and four puncture wounds when she was knocked to the ground and repeatedly beaten. trib.al/LKo2gJd
Of course Elon Musk as the owner of Starlink gave the order to slow it down, harming the Ukrainian military, but that hardly absolves Trump since Musk was speaking with Trump about Ukraine's attacks on Russian refineries which Trump wants stopped. trib.al/bfVbaUl
Like a classic bully, Trump hates it when leaders push back, but that tends to be the only way to rein him in, whether his threats to seize Greenland or his propensity to abandon Ukraine's democracy for Putin's dictatorship of aggression. trib.al/o3WLiuy
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion for deceiving users about its data privacy practices. The judge ruled Meta had committed 43 million violations of New Mexico’s consumer protection laws. Each violation carried a penalty of up to $5,000. trib.al/IfLVLfP
